Charging problems and ugly update

If you find another user a) you can try charging and b) you can test it’s capacity

On the charging regime. The killer is heat so things to avoid are

  • Allowing the battery to get low as it has to work harder to provide power at a lower voltage i.e. more amps.

  • The battery is rated at 3.85V and from my own tests below that is stressful and that’s around 50% (2.5 year old battery)

  • Rapid charging clearly will create more heat

  • Do not charge overnight as you cannot stop it charging to 100%

  • If you do want to charge overnight use a slow charger

  • Again, from my tests, the maximum optimum range is 40% to 90%

You can try and clean the bottom module,

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